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Who Says 2D Gaming is Dead?

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-alive-i-tell-you-alive dept.

Retro Gaming with Racketboy has up a feature looking at the best modern 2D games out there, all on the PlayStation 2. He highlights the best of every genre, from the modern classic RPG/beat-em-up Odin Sphere to the timeless beauty that is the Metal Slug series. "Disgaea: Hour of Darkness & Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Disgaea greatly resembles other strategy RPGs. Its isometric perspective, 3D battlefields, and nice-looking 2D characters are clearly reminiscent of most other games of this type, and on first impression, so is the game's turn-based combat system. However, you'll soon realize that this game actually plays very differently. The gameplay itself is, in a word, weird."

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  1. It will always be alive by MLCT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Despite having around a dozen modern games installed on my machine at the moment (and that ranges from Civ4, through HL2 and ending up at Simpson's Hit & run) I just spent the last two hours playing Lemmings. Enjoyable, engaging, straightforward and fun. I can play it while running 5 other things & it doesn't take over my system. I don't know what the "kidz" today would make of a basic 2D game like Lemmings - it would be interesting to see if games of that time really have something special, or if I am just being nostalgic.

  2. 2D is dead, this list proves it by grumbel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Half the games on that list aren't even fully 2D, but 3D with restricted movement. The other half is made up of decade old series or derivatives from them (Street Fighter, MetalSlug). Original 2D games are near non-existent these days, except for a few ones left on the DS, but even there its mostly sequels or already 3D or well, both (Metroid, Zelda:PH).

    I do love 2D games, but there really isn't much at all left these days, especially when you want original content instead of just some new food to celebrate nostalgia.

  3. Back in my day games were all 1D by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    and that's the way we liked it! Oh, the times we'd spend in between shifts in the poison mines, playing Dots on a Line...

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  4. How the hell can you... by r_jensen11 · · Score: 5, Funny

    play Lemmings while running 5 other things? I have a hard enough time running 5 things within Lemmings, let alone 5 things in addition to that game!

  5. Descriptive by Boronx · · Score: 4, Funny

    The gameplay itself is, in a word, weird.

    That one word description is, in a word, non-descriptive.

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